CHRONICLE

By SUSAN HELLER ANDERSON

Published: February 13, 1991

H. AXEL SCHUPF, an investment adviser and a former chairman of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, has been elected chairman of the Jewish Museum in Manhattan. Mr. Schupf, 55, succeeds MORRIS W. OFFIT, who became the museum's president after serving four years as its chairman.

The museum, at Fifth Avenue and 92d Street, is closed while it undergoes a two-year renovation. During this period, the museum is holding its exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society, on Central Park West at 77th Street.